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Isn't one part of the solution something that they have done but perhaps not loudly enough or far enough. If we think that inequality has worsened due to an imbalance of power in the ability to set wages, then giving workers and unions more power might in the long term help. Predistribution perhaps?

We can but hope. Competence hasn't been the mainstay of political success that it used to be!

And his words and her apology amount to be sorry for their racism showing.

"I don't think [her] remarks were racist"
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"...it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people"

Montie showing his true colours.

Ed is doing a good job, in the face of a lots of resistance from other parts of the Cabinet and Treasury. My point about Brexit is to not give up the argument. Do something radical and say we are going to reconsider the deal with a view to taking a Norway-like approach.

Old Blairites like you shouting about needing to govern from the centre seem to have missed the fact that what held up that centre ground has been ripped up by the very policies and form of politics you supported. Ask yourself why people are so disenchanted with politics and politicians.

The centrism that you are suggesting is one that ceeds the ideological ground to the right - immigration is a problem, the green agenda is too woke, Brexit can be made to work, welfare spending is out of control. There's nothing there that will appeal to the left coalition Labour needs to build.

By framing immigration as the root of all the country's ills, Starmer has agreed with Farage, by rowing back on what looked like a promising green growth agenda, there is no clear growth alternative, and we fall back to austerity 3.0.

It's a space that doesn't exist though. Starmer is trying to hold a centre ground" that looks to most people to be little different from Farage on the issues that get prime media focus. There is no worthwhile centre ground here.

What your piece essentially says is that Starmer is not up to the job as he is completely ignorant of what it really involves (e.g. managing complex inter-ministerial briefs and egos). Given that he's over a year into being PM what makes you think he's capable of learning to do the job better?

Where is that ground? As a Blairite you make the mistake of taking soft left voters for granted like you always did. But back then there wasn't anywhere else to go, and for all Blairism's flaws, there was enough to keep us voting Labour. That is not the case anymore, so Blairite will kill the party.

Not that I'm an expert in Parliamentary behaviours, but shouldn't the Speaker have piled Tugendhat up for those remarks at the time?